What is the physical nature of comets and what explains the observed changes in their appearance and size?

The comet’s head and tail are composed of very rarefied gases and dust particles that glow under the influence of sunlight; the tail is stretched away from the Sun under the action of a stream of fast particles emitted by the Sun – the solar wind.

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